The introduction of Jens Axboe's explicit i/o plugging patches introduced a
deadlock in jfs. This was caused by the process initiating I/O not
unplugging the queue before waiting on the commit thread. The commit
thread itself was waiting for that I/O to complete. Calling io_schedule()
rather than schedule() unplugs the I/O queue avoiding the deadlock, and it
appears to be the right function to call in any case.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so
that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require
recompiling just about everything.
[akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver]
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Removed trailing spaces & tabs, and spaces preceding tabs.
Also a couple very minor comment cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
(cherry picked from f74156539964d7b3d5164fdf8848e6a682f75b97 commit)
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
(cherry picked from bdc3d9e5af7d9c105be734dd7b5c3f1d9425a15a commit)
Conversion of booleans to: generic-boolean.patch (2006-08-23)
Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I look at code, and see that
1)locks wasn't release in the opposite order in which they were taken
2)in jfs_rename we lock new_ip, and in "error path" we didn't unlock it
3)I see strange expression: "! !"
May be this worth to fix?
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Use the kthread_ API instead of opencoding lots of hairy code for kernel
thread creation and teardown.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
the conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
build and boot tested.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
This patch add EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_write_and_wait) and use it.
See mm/filemap.c:
And changes the filemap_write_and_wait() and filemap_write_and_wait_range().
Current filemap_write_and_wait() doesn't wait if filemap_fdatawrite()
returns error. However, even if filemap_fdatawrite() returned an
error, it may have submitted the partially data pages to the device.
(e.g. in the case of -ENOSPC)
<quotation>
Andrew Morton writes,
If filemap_fdatawrite() returns an error, this might be due to some
I/O problem: dead disk, unplugged cable, etc. Given the generally
crappy quality of the kernel's handling of such exceptions, there's a
good chance that the filemap_fdatawait() will get stuck in D state
forever.
</quotation>
So, this patch doesn't wait if filemap_fdatawrite() returns the -EIO.
Trond, could you please review the nfs part? Especially I'm not sure,
nfs must use the "filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping) == 0", or not.
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes up a few problems with jfs's reserved inodes.
1. There is no need for the jfs code setting the I_DIRTY bits in i_state.
I am ashamed that the code ever did this, and surprised it hasn't been
noticed until now.
2. Make sure special inodes are on an inode hash list. If the inodes are
unhashed, __mark_inode_dirty will fail to put the inode on the
superblock's dirty list, and the data will not be flushed under memory
pressure.
3. Force writing journal data to disk when metapage_writepage is unable to
write a metadata page due to pending journal I/O.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
The fix in inode.c is a real bug. It could result in undeleted, yet
unconnected files on big-endian hardware.
The others are trivial.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
TxAnchor.anon_list is protected by jfsTxnLock (TXN_LOCK), but there was
a place in txLock() that was removing an entry from the list without holding
the spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Under heavy load, hot metadata pages are often locked by non-committed
transactions, making them difficult to flush to disk. This prevents
the sync point from advancing past a transaction that had modified the
page.
There is a point during the sync barrier processing where all
outstanding transactions have been committed to disk, but no new
transaction have been allowed to proceed. This is the best time
to write the metadata.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
1. Establish a simple API for process freezing defined in linux/include/sched.h:
frozen(process) Check for frozen process
freezing(process) Check if a process is being frozen
freeze(process) Tell a process to freeze (go to refrigerator)
thaw_process(process) Restart process
frozen_process(process) Process is frozen now
2. Remove all references to PF_FREEZE and PF_FROZEN from all
kernel sources except sched.h
3. Fix numerous locations where try_to_freeze is manually done by a driver
4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function calls.
5. Some whitespace cleanup
6. Clear potential race in refrigerator (provides an open window of PF_FREEZE
cleared before setting PF_FROZEN, recalc_sigpending does not check
PF_FROZEN).
This patch does not address the problem of freeze_processes() violating the rule
that a task may only modify its own flags by setting PF_FREEZE. This is not clean
in an SMP environment. freeze(process) is therefore not SMP safe!
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds jfs_syncpt, which calls lmLogSync to write sync points
to the journal both in jfs_sync_fs and when sync barrier processing
completes.
lmLogSync accomplishes two things: 1) it pushes logged-but-dirty
metadata pages to disk, and 2) it writes a sync record to the journal
so that jfs_fsck doesn't need to replay more transactions than is
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
jfs has never worked on architecutures where the page size was not 4K.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use an inline pxd list rather than an xad list in the xadlock.
When the number of extents being modified can fit with the xadlock,
a transaction can be committed asynchronously. Using a list of
pxd's instead of xad's allows us to fit 4 extents, rather than 2.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
